Professor Ira Fay Class 9

Game Guru Programming for Game Designers

 Observe  Rules of the game  Scoring  Characters  Animations  Audio  User interface  Anything at all!

Average Value  Game Guru: 4 (one person gave it a 1)  Get to Know Hampshire: 2.6  Dice: 3.8  Dice Hours Spent: 10.4

 Install Dropbox (or something similar)  Find an interesting professor  Check out a boardgame from the library  Find a CEL-1 activity

 Game Guru  In-class playtests  Dice project

 Length of Dice project (too long)  In-class playtests  Nothing

 Didn’t need help (9)  I have attended TA hours (4)

 Due today! How many people completed it?  Website  Roll 1d6  Pick one of the game options  What game option did you pick?

 With a growth mindset, we can improve our skills through practicing.  Learning happens over time, not instantly.  The process of learning is uncomfortable when we’re not competent yet.

 Lines of code are executed in order  = is an assignment operator  Programming is typo-intolerant  You have to say the magic words exactly right for the spell to work!

 Variables hold information  Variables can change value while the program is executing  Example  $myRoll

 Methods are like a factory:  They take input, and spit out results  Example  rand(1, 6);

 +=  //  if ()  for ()

$totalScore = 0; $myRoll = rand(1, 6); $totalScore = $totalScore + $myRoll;

$totalScore = 0; $myRoll = rand(1, 6); $totalScore += $myRoll;

// Player starts with a score of 0 $totalScore = 0; // Roll 1d6 $myRoll = rand(1, 6); // Add the roll to the score $totalScore += $myRoll;

// Player starts with a score of 0 $totalScore = 0; // Roll 1d6 $myRoll = rand(1, 6); // if the roll is greater than 4 if ($myRoll > 4) { // Add the roll to the score $totalScore += $myRoll; }

> means greater than < means less than >= means greater than or equal to <= means less than or equal to == means equal != means not equal Remember that = is an assignment operator!

How could I display the numbers 1 to 9?

echo “1”; echo “2”; echo “3”; echo “4”; echo “5”; echo “6”; echo “7”; echo “8”; echo “9”;

How could I display the numbers 1 to 99? 1 to 999?

// Count from 1 to 9 for ($i = 1; $i < 10; $i += 1) { echo $i; } // We could also use a while() loop $i = 1; while ($i < 10) { echo $i; $i += 1; }

// Count from 1 to 99 for ($i = 1; $i < 100; $i += 1) { echo $i; } // We could also use a while() loop $i = 1; while ($i < 100) { echo $i; $i += 1; }

// Count from 1 to 999 for ($i = 1; $i < 1000; $i += 1) { echo $i; } // We could also use a while() loop $i = 1; while ($i < 1000) { echo $i; $i += 1; }

 For the rest of this unit, we’ll have ample lab time in class. Bring your computer!  Lisette: Kai S, Ben, Truman, Dakari  Meghan: Kai M, Grace, Zack  Gabriella: Helena, Ethan, Joel  George: Quinn, Bryan, Max

Read the syllabus to know what to do!  Programming for Game Designers Part 2 due Weds  Get to Know Hampshire project ongoing Game Guru: Pick a game to show next class, submit written analysis before class